MADDEN, John 1936–

PERSONAL

Full name, John Earl Madden; born April 10, 1936, in Austin, MN; raised in Daly City, CA; son of Earl (a mechanic) and Mary (maiden name, O'Flaherty) Madden; married Virginia Fields (a teacher and business owner), c. 1960; children: Michael, Joseph. Education: California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo, B.S., education, 1959, M.A., education, 1961; also attended the University of Oregon, the College of San Mateo, and Grays Harbor College.

Addresses: Manager—IMG, 1360 East Ninth St., Suite 100, Cleveland, OH 44114.

Career: Actor, announcer, commentator, and sports analyst on television and radio. Appeared in commercials, print advertisements, and public service announcements. Philadelphia Eagles, Philadelphia, PA, football player in the team's system, late 1950s; Allen Hancock College, Santa Maria, CA, assistant football coach, beginning c. 1960, then head football coach, c. 1962–64; San Diego State University, assistant football coach, c. 1964–66; Oakland Raiders professional football team, linebacker coach, c. 1967–69, head coach, c. 1969–79. Worked as a physical education teacher, golf caddy, and bat boy.

Awards, Honors: Named coach of the year, American Football League; Named coach of the year, Washington Touchdown Club, 1977; Vince Lombardi Dedication Award, 1979; Golden Mike Award, Touchdown Club of America, 1982; TV Guide Award nominations, favorite sportscaster, 1999 and 2000; Pete Rozelle Radio and Television Award, Pro Football Hall of Fame, 2002; several Emmy awards and Emmy Award nominations, outstanding sports personality or analyst; named sports analyst of the year multiple times by the American Sportscasters Association; named to a list of powerful celebrities, Forbes magazine; elected to the Pro Football Hall of Fame, 2006.

CREDITS

Television Appearances; Series:

Anchor, Fox NFL Sunday, Fox, beginning 1994.

NFL Monday Night Football, ABC, beginning 2002.

Commentator for CBS's coverage of NFL football, beginning c. 1980; and for NBC's coverage of NFL football, beginning 2006.

Television Appearances; Specials:

Announcer, Super Bowl XVIII, CBS, 1984.

Announcer, Super Bowl XXI, CBS, 1987.

Super Night at the Super Bowl, CBS, 1987.

Host and reporter, The NFL Pre-Season Special, CBS, 1988.

Host, John Madden's Super Bowl Special, syndicated, 1989.

Announcer, Super Bowl XXIV, CBS, 1990.

Host, John Madden's Super Bowl Special, syndicated, 1990.

Overtime … with Pat O'Brien, CBS, 1990.

Announcer, Super Bowl XXVI, CBS, 1992.

Share a Moment with the World, CBS, 1992.

Host, NFL All-Access, Fox, 1994.

Fox Sports NFL '94 Football Preview, Fox, 1994.

Cohost, Little Caesar's 11th Annual All-Madden Team, Fox, 1995.

Himself, Rebels with a Cause: The Story of the American Football League (documentary), HBO, 1995.

Himself, The Super Bowl at 30: Big Game America (documentary), TNT, 1996.

Oops! The World's Funniest Outtakes 4, Fox, 1996.

Announcer, Super Bowl XXXI (also known as The Fox Sports Special: XXXI Superbowl Green Bay vs. New England), Fox, 1997.

Cohost, Little Caesar's 14th Annual All-Madden Team, Fox, 1997.

The Funniest of the World's Funniest Outtakes, Fox, 1997.

Outback Steakhouse All-Time All-Madden Super Bowl Team, Fox, 1997.

Real Sports with Bryant Gumbel, HBO, 1998.

Super Bowl XXXIII, Fox, 1999.

Announcer, Big Game XXVIII: Road Runner vs. Coyote (animated), Cartoon Network, 2000.

Himself, The Sportscasters: Behind the Mike (documentary), History Channel, 2000.

Announcer, Big Game XXIX: Bugs vs. Daffy (animated), Cartoon Network, 2001.

Announcer, Super Bowl XXXVI, Fox, 2002.

Host, 19th Annual Blockbuster All-Madden Team, Fox, 2002.

Commentator, Super Bowl XXXVII, ABC, 2003.

Presenter, ABC 50th Anniversary Celebration, ABC, 2003.

Rebels of Oakland: The As, the Raiders, the '70s (documentary), HBO, 2003.

Television Appearances; Awards Presentations:

Presenter, The 2003 ESPY Awards, ESPN, 2003.

G-Phoria, G4techTV, 2003.

Presenter, The 2004 ESPY Awards, ESPN, 2004.

Video Game Awards 2004, Spike TV, 2004.

Television Appearances; Episodic:

Saturday Night Live (also known as NBC's "Saturday Night," Saturday Night, and SNL), NBC, 1982 and 1984.

"Sunday, Cruddy Sunday," The Simpsons (animated), Fox, 1999.

"Bo Jackson," ESPN Sports Century, ESPN, 2000.

"Deion Sanders," ESPN Sports Century, ESPN, 2000.

"Jim Plunkett," ESPN Sports Century, ESPN, 2000.

"Lawrence Taylor," ESPN Sports Century, ESPN, 2000.

"Vince Lombardi," ESPN Sports Century, ESPN, 2000.

"Walter Payton," ESPN Sports Century, ESPN, 2001.

Himself, "Broadway Joe: the Joe Namath Story," Biography (documentary; also known as A&E Biography: Joe Namath), Arts and Entertainment, 2002.

"Dan Marino," ESPN Sports Century, ESPN, 2003.

"Terry Bradshaw," ESPN Sports Century, ESPN, 2003.

Ride with Funkmaster Flex, Spike TV, 2003.

"Peyton Manning," ESPN Sports Century, ESPN, 2004.

"Tom Landry," ESPN Sports Century, ESPN, 2004.

"Don Shula," ESPN Sports Century, ESPN, 2005.

Film Appearances:

Himself, P. K. and the Kid, Castle Hill, 1982.

Himself, Little Giants, Warner Bros., 1994.

Himself, The Replacements, Warner Bros., 2000.

Complete Guide to Guys (also known as Dave Barry's "Complete Guide to Guys"), Labrador Pictures, 2005.

RECORDINGS

Video Games:

John Madden Football, Electronic Arts, 1989, 1990.

John Madden Football II, Electronic Arts, 1991.

John Madden Football '92, Electronic Arts, 1991.

John Madden Football '93, Electronic Arts, 1992.

Madden NFL 94, Electronic Arts, 1993.

Madden NFL 95, Electronic Arts, 1994.

Madden NFL 96, Electronic Arts, 1995.

Madden NFL 97, Electronic Arts, 1996.

Madden NFL 98, Electronic Arts, 1997.

Madden NFL 99, Electronic Arts, 1998.

Madden NFL 2000, Electronic Arts, 1999.

Madden NFL 2001, Electronic Arts, 2000.

Madden NFL 2002, Electronic Arts, 2001.

Madden NFL 2003, Electronic Arts, 2002.

Madden NFL 2004, Electronic Arts, 2003.

Madden NFL 2005, Electronic Arts, 2004.

Madden NFL 2006, Electronic Arts, 2005.

Videos:

Himself, U2: The Best of 1999–2000, 2002.

WRITINGS

Nonfiction:

(With Dave Anderson) Hey, Wait a Minute (I Wrote a Book!), Villard, 1984.

(With Anderson) One Size Doesn't Fit All (and Other Thoughts for the Road), Villard, 1985.

(With Anderson) One Knee Equals Two Feet (and Everything Else You Wanted to Know about Football), Villard, 1986.

(With Anderson) First Book of Football (for children), Crown Publishers, 1988.

John Madden's Pro Football Annual, Villard, 1989.

(With Corey Sandler) Inside Madden NFL 94, Brady, 1994.

(With Anderson) All Madden: Hey, I'm Talking Pro Football!, HarperCollins, 1996.

(With Peter Kaminsky) John Madden's "Ultimate Tailgating," Viking, 1998.

OTHER SOURCES

Books:

Chadwick, Bruce and Chuck Noll, John Madden, Chelsea House Publishers, 1997.

St. James Encyclopedia of Popular Culture, five volumes, St. James Press, 2000.

Periodicals:

Sports Illustrated, January 19, 1998, p. 20; January 28, 2002, p. 17.

Time, January 11, 1988, p. 82.

MADDEN, John 1949–

PERSONAL

Born April 8, 1949, in Portsmouth, Hampshire, England; married Penny; children: Oliver, Emma. Education: Attended Clifton College; studied English at Sidney Sussex College, 1970.

Addresses: Agent—Creative Artists Agency, 9830 Wilshire Blvd., Beverly Hills, CA 90212.

Career: Director. Oxford and Cambridge Shakespeare Company, artistic director; worked as an actor during the 1970s; began working at British Broadcasting Company (BBC), 1973; taught at Yale University.

Awards, Honors: Television Award nomination (with others), best single drama, British Academy of Film and Television Arts, 1991, for The Widowmaker; Film Award (with others), best feature film and best single drama, British Academy of Film and Television Arts—Scotland, 1997, for Mrs. Brown; Certificate of Merit, San Francisco International Film Festival, television drama and television feature, 1997, both for Truth or Dare; Academy Award nomination, best director, 1999, San Diego Film Critics Society Award, best director, 1998, Golden Globe Award nomination, best director—motion picture, 1999, Directors Guild of America Award nomination, outstanding directorial achievement in motion pictures, 1999, Hochi Film Award, best foreign language film, 1999, Chlotrudis Award nomination, best director, 1999, Golden Berlin Bear Award nomination, Berlin International Film Festival, 1999, David Lean Award for Direction nomination, Film Award, British Academy of Film and Television Arts, 1999, Bodil Award nomination, best American film, 2000, Czech Lion Award, best foreign language film, 2000, Mainichi Film Concours Award, best foreign language film, 2000, Kinempa Junpo Award, best foreign language film, Readers' Choice Award, and Kinempa Junpo awards, best foreign language film, both 2000, all for Shakespeare in Love; ShoWest Award, ShoWest Convention, director of the year, 1999; Prospero Award, Bermuda International Film Festival, 2001; Prix Italia, for the radio version of Wings.

CREDITS

Film Director:

Ethan Frome, Miramax, 1993.

Golden Gate, Samuel Goldwyn, 1994.

Mrs. Brown (also known as Her Majesty, Mrs. Brown), Miramax, 1997.

Shakespeare in Love, Universal, 1998.

Captain Corelli's Mandolin (also known as Capitaine Corelli), Miramax, 2001.

Proof, Miramax, 2005.

Film Appearances:

Himself, Italian Soldiers (also known as Spaghetti Requiem; documentary), First Hand Films, 2001.

Television Director; Miniseries:

"Friends and Enemies," "Fathers and Sons," "French and English," "Winds of Change," and "Final Demands," After the War, PBS and ITV (England), 1989.

"Theseus and the Minotaur," The Storyteller: Greek Myths (also known as Jim Henson's "The Story-teller": Greek Myths), HBO, 1990.

Television Director; Movies:

The Widowmaker, 1990.

Meat, BBC (England), 1994.

Prime Suspect 4: The Lost Child, PBS, 1995.

Truth or Dare, BBC, 1996.

Television Director; Specials:

Wings, PBS, 1983.

Grown-Ups, Showtime, 1985.

A Wreath of Roses, PBS, 1987.

The Infernal Serpent, PBS, 1991.

Promised Land, PBS, 1993.

Inspector Morse, Series VII: Dead on Time, Arts and Entertainment, 1994.

The Way through the Woods, PBS, 1997.

Television Director; Episodic:

"The Priory School," The Return of Sherlock Holmes, Series I, PBS and Granada, 1986.

"The Man with the Twisted Lip," The Return of Sherlock Holmes, Series I, PBS, 1986.

"The Disappearance of Lady Frances Carfax," The Casebook of Sherlock Holmes, ITV (England), 1991, then PBS, 1992.

Also directed "Dead on Time," Inspector Morse, ITV and PBS; "Promised Land," Inspector Morse, ITV and PBS; "The Way Through the Woods", Inspector Morse, ITV and PBS.

Television Appearances; Specials:

Himself, The 71st Annual Academy Awards, ABC, 1999.

The Last Morse (documentary), PBS, 2001.

Himself, The John Thaw Story (documentary), 2002.

Radio Work:

Director, Ear (series), National Public Radio, 1975.

Director of radio versions of Wings; Star Wars, National Public Radio; The Empire Strikes Back, National Public Radio; and Return of the Jedi, National Public Radio.

Stage Director:

Wings, Yale University, New Haven, CT and Public Theatre, New York City, 1978, then Lyceum Theatre, New York City, 1979.

Grown-Ups, Lyceum Theatre, New York City, 1981–82.

Beyond Therapy, Brooks Atkinson Theatre, New York City, 1982.

Cinders, Joseph Papp Public Theater, New York City, 1984.

Salonika, Joseph Papp Public Theater, New York City, 1985.

Mrs. Warren's Profession, Union Square Theatre, New York City, 1985–86.

OTHER SOURCES

Periodicals:

Variety, February 1, 1999, p. 6.